Øjvind Moestrup (born 15 December 1941) is a Danish aquatic

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

, working particularly with the classification of algae. He worked at the Botanical Institute at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

and is a professor emeritus in the Department of Biology there. He published over 100 scientific papers. Moestrup received his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in biology from the University of Copenhagen in 1983, and has worked with the Fishery Inspection Service of the Danish Ministry of Fisheries. His major areas of research include the taxonomy of

planktonic algae Phytoplankton () are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems. The name comes from the Greek words (), meaning 'plant', and (), meaning 'wanderer' or 'drifter'. Phyt ...

haptophyte The haptophytes, classified either as the Haptophyta, Haptophytina or Prymnesiophyta (named for '' Prymnesium''), are a clade of algae. The names Haptophyceae or Prymnesiophyceae are sometimes used instead. This ending implies classification at ...

s, toxic

diatom A diatom (Neo-Latin ''diatoma'') is any member of a large group comprising several Genus, genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Living diatoms make up a significant portion of Earth's B ...

s and

raphidophyte The raphidophytes, formally known as Raphidophycidae or Raphidophyceae (formerly referred to as Chloromonadophyceae and Chloromonadineae), are a small group of eukaryotic algae that includes both marine and freshwater species. All raphidophytes ...

Honours

In 2012 Professor Moestrup received the Yasumoto AwardThe Yasumoto Award is the most prestigious award given in the harmful algal bloom field. for excellence in his lifetime dedicated work of research on the biology, taxonomy and ultrastructure of microalgae. The following have been named after him: * '' Gyrodinium moestrupii'' * '' Moestrupia'' * '' Ochromonas moestrupii'' * '' Platychrysis moestrupii'' * ''

Pyramimonas moestrupii ''Pyramimonas'' is a genus of green algae in the order Pyramimonadales. Phototropic euglenids inherited their plastids from a close relative of ''Pyramimonas'' which was an endosymbiont An endosymbiont or endobiont is an organism that lives ...

'' * '' Resultomonas moestrupii''

References

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